Coat and hat hook



(No Model.)

F. TAYLOR. GOAT AND HAT HOOK.

No. 505,336. Patented Sept. '19, 1893.

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FREDERICK TAYLOR, OF LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS.

.COAT AND HAT HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters-Patent No. 505,836, datedSeptember 19, 1893.

Application filed November 19 1890- Serial No. 371,935. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lowell, in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth ofMassachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement inCoat and Hat Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in coat and hat hooks and theobject is to provide a simple, strong and durable article of symmetricalshape.

To this end the invention consists in the novel construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed.

The accompanying drawing is an isometric perspective view of my improvedcoat and hat hook. The wire has a straight horizontal portion a,provided at its rear end with a screw-threaded point a, adapted to entera wall, or other vertical support, and at the front end of saidhorizontal portion islooped laterally, at b, to form a broad bearing forhats or other articles, both sides of said loop I) being curved upward,as shown, to improve the appearance of the device and the better toretain articles supported thereon. From the loop I), the wire, at a, iscarried back in the same horizontal plane with the portion a, for adistance preferably more than half the length of said portion a, then"downward and backward to form an inclined brace c. From the lower rearend of the brace c, the wire is carried vertically upward at (1, thenlooped over the horizontal portion a, at e, and then carried verticallydownward at d. The portion of the wire below the brace c is loopedlaterally in the middle, atf, to bring the end of the wire below thelower end of the brace parallel with the part d and in the same straightline with the part at. Below the brace both portions of the wire arevertical for a distance, which may be about the same as the distancefrom the lower end of the brace to the horizontal portion a, and arethen curved forward, as shown, to form a coat hook, the loop e forming abroad lateral support for a coat or other article and the vertical partsat d and d forming the back or wall-plate of the device. The lower rearend of the brace c is, by the construction above described, supportedat. an invariable distance from the horizontal portion a and may becarried much lower than if the wire from the rear end of the brace wereconnected directly to the lower hook, without any possibility of thelower end of the brace sliding downward on the vertical surface, toWhich the device is secured, when a weight is placed on the uppersupport or hat-hook b.

I claim as my invention- A hook formed of a single piece of wirecomprising a horizontal portion formed by doubling the wire laterallyupon itself, the two members lying side by side and at substantially thesame height throughout a portion of their lengths and one of them beingextended to form an attaching point, a rearwardly and downwardlyextending diagonal brace springing from the other member of saidhorizontal portion, a vertical back-portion doubled overthe shank of theattaching point and one of itsmembers springing from the brace, and alower hook formed by doubling the wire laterally upon itself, one memberof said hook being a continuation of one member of the verticalback-portion, and the end of the other member of the hook terminatingunder the bend at the base of the brace.

In witness whereof I have signed this specification, in the presence oftwo attesting witnesses, this 31st day of October, A. D1890.

FREDERICK TAYLOR.

Witnesses:

ALBERT M. MOORE, MINNIE B. (laws.

